Usability evaluation of children edutainment software

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4559 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages 622-630

  Wang, Danli ^a   Li, Jie ^a   Dai, Guozhong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOFTWARE   (China)

Author keywords

Edutainment software for children; Scenario based evaluation method; Software usability

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; SOFTWARE DESIGN; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

EDUTAINMENT SOFTWARE; SCENARIO-BASED EVALUATION METHOD; SOFTWARE USABILITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY;

EID: 38149088148     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73287-7_72     Document Type: Conference Paper

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